posted 14. September 200510:56 PM
Appears to be genuine. At least, it's on a legit news site (yahoo news), and also on the Reuters site (couldn't link it here, but go to reuters, search photos for "Rick Wilking", and you'll find the pic, dated today (Sept 14).

Not sure why this is supposed to be shocking/"fear for the world", etc. Unless it's of the junior-high bathroom mentality ("huh huh the president had to pee, huh huh"), I just don't get it.

quote:Originally posted by Rehcsif Mit: Appears to be genuine. At least, it's on a legit news site (yahoo news), and also on the Reuters site (couldn't link it here, but go to reuters, search photos for "Rick Wilking", and you'll find the pic, dated today (Sept 14).

Not sure why this is supposed to be shocking/"fear for the world", etc. Unless it's of the junior-high bathroom mentality ("huh huh the president had to pee, huh huh"), I just don't get it.

-Tim "Bush can't even take a NFBSK anymore without people questioning him?"

Just a bit surprising that Bush had the need to ask about going to the bathroom.

After having been in office as a world leader for almost 5 years one might say he should know how to take care of such matters in the setting without asking Condie.

A video clip of him raising his hand and asking to go would have been pretty funny- had Condie not been there we might have gotten to see that. Posts: 687 | From: Grand Rapids, Michigan | Registered: Jul 2005
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quote:Originally posted by TuFurg: Just a bit surprising that Bush had the need to ask about going to the bathroom.

Just theorizing, but perhaps he was asking Condi (as Secretary of State) to arrange for a break in the action discretely. This would look better than a) him getting up and walking out, or b) the scenerio you mentioned, with him raising his hand .

Of course, when you have a guy with a long zoom lens on your pad, then that sorta shatters the "discreteness" .

Humorous, yes. Inappropriate? I think not. (I do question the appropriateness of releasing the photo to the news bureau, but hey, it's a free country...)

posted 15. September 200502:45 AM
I'd agree that he was probably writing it so a break could be discretely arranged.

I'm as anti-Bush as they get, but I think it's pretty immature to make fun of the fact that he had to pee. *shrug*

...And I think the reason he ended it with a question mark was because, if it had been spoken out loud, it would have asked with rising intonation, even though it was gramatically formed as a declarative sentence. Think about it--if YOU were in a situation in which it would be very awkward to ask for a break, wouldn't you say, "I need a break...?" instead of confidently declaring it?
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posted 15. September 200505:03 AM
A couple of sites propose that Bush was actually REPLYING to a note that was passed to him, likely by Condoleeza Rice. They're basing this on the request for a break being in large block letters while the bottom part he is writing looks a little different.

posted 15. September 200506:05 AM
I don't think that it was the fact that our president was asking to use the bathroom (although the three-year-old inside of me did find it humerous), but just the idea that our president cannot write a simple sentence correctly. Maybe its just because I'm an English major, but that was the thing that bothered (and made me laugh) me the most.

posted 15. September 200508:12 AM
Anyone remember the video of Bill Clinton whispering to HRC that he had to pee?It was just after he took office in 1993 & was having some event at the White House
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posted 15. September 200501:28 PM
Am I the only one who thinks that the bottom two lines of writing don't seem to be in the same hand writing as the first four lines?

Since this source is reputable, I think there is little question that the literal picture is genuine and accurate, but is it possible President Bush just needed to scribble a quick note to someone and just grabbed what ever scrap of paper was sitting around, upon which someone else had made the bathroom request on? I mean after all the note hardly looks like anything the President was planning on saving for prosperity, just a quick note.

quote:Originally posted by Sara at home:True, says Editor and Publisher.

Spanked ya last night

-Tim

Darn! I just looked at your url and it's not the same one I used. So I was just contributing what Editor and Publisher had to say to add to whatever everyone else had to say. Didn't know mediainfo.com and editorandpublisher.com were the same thing.

posted 16. September 200502:41 AM
If you're making a speech and you must have secret service agents go everywhere you go, yeah you have to ask permission. I wouldn't doubt that it is real.
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quote:This photo generated a lot of discussion on blogs, with views mixed on whether it was or was not legitimate to display it. Reader feedback to Reuters, however, ran 100 percent against it. The photographer and editors on this story were looking for other angles in their coverage of this event, something that went beyond the stock pictures of talking heads that this kind of forum usually offers. This picture certainly did that: Editor

Having been in lengthy formal meetings myself I can understand why the note was written. I guess it just shows how desperate some people are to have something to make fun of.